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Hashemieh M, Amani A. Relative Frequency of Causes in Non-Exclusive Breast Feeding in First 4-6 Months of Age in Arak City. J Arak Uni Med Sci 1997; 1 (5) :31-35
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Relative Frequency of Causes in Non-Exclusive Breast Feeding in First 4-6 Months of Age in Arak City
1- Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
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Exclusive breast feeding for the first six months of the life and then breast feeding with supplemental nutrition of the two year of age are the best way of feeding. Although almost all mothers are able to have successful breast feeding, many infants are still being fed by fomula or receiving supplemental nutrition from the first month of life. In this study, information about 400 infants between 4-6 months of life fed by non-exclusive breast feeding method chosen with simple randomization has been gathered. The most common cause of non-exclusive breast feeding was infantile restlessness (36.2%). The other causes include: incorrect mothers belief about milk insufficiency, family advices, fewer weight gaining of infants (7.7%), business of mother (6.5%), maternal and infantial diseases (2.2%) and advice of some physicians (2%).Although 75% of the mothers has been educated during pregnancy of perinatal period, but they did not feed exclusively their infants with breast milk.
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